Window-shade bracket.



D. P. MoOARTY.

wmnow SHADE BRAGKET.

APPLICATION FILED OOT.17, 1910'.

988,122. Patented Mar.28, 1911.

Inventor Attorneys DAVID F. MCCARTY, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. October 17, 1910.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, DAVID F. MoCAR'rY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Zanesville, in the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful VVindow-Shade Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to window brackets for supporting curtain poles and window shades and is more particularly an improvement upon the structure disclosed in Patent No. 652,731, issued to me on June 26, 1900.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a combined curtain pole support and guide formed in a single length of wire, the said guide serving to hold a shade bracket likewise formed in a single length of wire and which is mounted to slide upon the guide.

A further object is to provide means integral with the guide rod for engaging an adjusting cord to hold the shade bracket or brackets at desired elevations upon the guide rods.

\Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimedwithout departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a window having the present improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the curtain bracket and guide rod. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the shade bracket. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 and showing a slightly modified form of the device.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a guide rod having an arm 2 extending perpendicularly from one end portion thereof and bent to form an eye 3 adapted to receive a screw or other fastening device. The end portion of the wire extends from this eye and merges into a coil 4 located at one side of the arm 2 and having a laterally extended end portion 5. The upper end of the guide rod merges into an eye 6 from which extends an arm 7 having a bowed portion 8 so shaped and proportioned as to constitute a seat for a curtain pole. From the end of this bowed portion extends a curved brace 9 which is wrapped around the guide 1 and terminates in an attaching arm 10 having a terminal eye 11. This eye is adapted to receive a screw or other fastening device provided for the purpose of attaching the device to a supporting structure.

Rod 1 is designed to guide a shade bracket such as shown, for example, in Fig. 4. This bracket is formed in a single length of wire and is made up of a shank 12 having a hook 13 at its lower end adapted to engage a trunnion of a shade roller, said hooked portion being folded, as shown at 15, and the end of the wire adjacent thereto being bent to form an eye 16 through-which the rod 1 is adapted to loosely extend. The upper end of the shank 12 merges into a coil 17 disposed in alinement with the eye 16 and the end of this coil is bent to form an eye 18. It is to be understood that the coil 17 is also designed to receive the guide 1.

The bracket herein described is to be attached to a window frame at one side thereof, it being secured by means of screws or the like driven through the eyes 3 and 11.

It is to be understood of course that one of these brackets is arranged at each side of the window frame. After the brackets have been placed in position, a curtain pole, such as indicated by dotted lines at A in Fig. 2, may be placed in the seats 8. A window shade can then be placed between the brackets and with its trunnions in the hooked portions 14, it being understood that one of these hooked portions is so shaped as to tightly engage the movable trunnion of the shade roller while the other hooked portion is sufficiently large to permit the other trunnion of the roller to rotate therein. Adjusting cords 19 are connected to the eyes 18 and extended upwardly through the eyes.

6, both of these cords being extended through one of the eyes 6, as shown at the right side of Fig. 1 and the two cords being secured together, as at 20 and continued, from that point, as a single cord 21. This single operating cord can be pulled downwardly so as to cause the cords 20 to move the slidable brackets upwardly, carrying the shade roller therewith, and when a desired adjustment has been effected, the cord 21 can be drawn between the out-turned end 5 of coil 1 and the next adjoining convolution of the coil Where it Will become wedged. To lOWCl the shade roller, the cord 21 is first disengaged from the coil 4 and the shade roller and its bracket-s will thus be free to move downwardly by gravity.

If preferred, and as shown in Fig. 5, the coil 4: may be dispensed with. This form of bracket may be employed at that side of the Window farthest removed from the side Where the cord 21 is hung. This has been clearly shown in Fig. 1.

hat claimed is:

1. A fixture oi the class described includ ing a guide rod having an arm at one end merging into an attaching eye, there being a cord engaging coil adjacent the eye, an a m extending from the other end of the guide and having a guide eye at one end at the upper end of the guide and a brace at its other end, said brace being Wrapped about the guide at a point below the guide eye and provided with an arm having an attaching eye, a curtain roller engaging device slidably mounted on the guide, and a cord connected thereto and movable Within the guide eye.

2. A fixture of the class described including guides each having an arm at one end merging into an attaching eye, there being a coil adjacent one of the eyes, and there being an arm extending from the other end of each guide, said last mentioned arms having guide eyes at one end and braces at their other end, said braces being Wrapped about the guides and provided With arms formed with attaching eyes, curtain roller engaging devices movably mounted on the guides and each including a shank having a roller trunnion engaging portion, there being an eye adjacent one end of the shank and a coil adjacent the other end thereof, both the eye and coil being slidable on the guide, and there being an eye adjacent the coil, and adjusting cords connected to the last mentioned eyes and extending upwardly to and slidably mounted Within the guide eyes, there being a single cord extending from the adjusting cords and movable into engagement- With the coil upon one of the guides.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atlixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

DAVID F. MGCARTY. lVitnesses A, A. GEORGE, S. D. OosNnn.

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